As you can clearly see in the screenshot above, Echo is a Church conference for artists, geeks, and storytellers. Each year they explore creativity in leadership, visuals, communications, branding, technology, and worship.
If this years conference–Echo Conference 2013, July 24-26 in Dallas, TX–is as awesome as their website and promotional video, you’re going to be in for a real treat!
I truly enjoy music mashups; they are the definition of creativity.
Check out this one by Go Home Productions that reunites some of The Beatles by melding together John Lennon’s Imagine instrumental underneath Paul McCartney & Wings’ Band on the Run vocals to create an eerily cool song–check out this cool Beatles mashup:
I used to work at a video game store.
When customers were trying to decide which system to purchase, this is what I would tell them:
“Focus on the game library.”
I think the same can be said for smartphones and tablets. There are many apps that can be used on multiple devices–sometimes better and sometimes worse–but what can really separate the different OS’ are the exclusive apps. If you find that your favorite apps can only be found on a particular platform, that’s the direction you should probably go.
Take a look at how the number of apps compare from app store to app store:
Google+ is quickly becoming one of my favorite social networks and part of it is because of the ability to share photos with specific groups of people. Recently, I took photos at my daughters kindergarten graduation, but I didn’t want to post the photos publicly and I didn’t want to put them on my Dropbox. I decided to post them on Gooogle+ and share with all of the parents.
Here’s how I did it:
A lot of things have been said about how the new Pope Francis has done things in a different way. This video is another example of this.
Recently thousands of Jesuit school children had a chance to meet and see the Pope and actually ask spontaneous questions!
What’s really striking is the honesty – of both the children and the Pope. Continue Reading…
Mychurchlive.tv church streaming service is a new option that offers everything needed to broadcast all of your church events–LIVE!
The platform was built using the latest server technology and designed specifically for churches.
Features and awesomeness include:
I love videos like this: a brilliant, Disney-style tongue-in-cheek, Facebook the musical.
The visuals and editing are creative, the singing isn’t bad either and their take on Facebook is hilarious (“You really shouldn’t get too comfortable with how your Facebook looks today ’cause knowing Zuckerberg he’s prob’ly just about to change it anyway” – Truth!)
Watch and don’t forget to share it on Facebook 
Should you upload that Facebook profile photo?
Some people may not ask this question enough…
Here’s a flowchart that’s sure to help in this very important decision:
Facebook is the social media network that everyone is on (regardless if they are fully active or using it for more than just Farmville). There is currently a hot button issue with parents on if Facebook users under 13 should be allowed on the network. The infographic below has some great insight into the discussion, including the responsibilities of parents and their seemingly double-mindedness.
If you’ve logged into Feedly, recently, you’ve probably seen this message:
“[IMPORTANT] Prepare for the final step of the migration from Google Reader to the feedly cloud.”
Huh? Wha?
A Feedly update to complete migration? I thought I was already migrated?
If you’re like me (have tons of feeds), you may have had a slight moment of panic as the thought of losing all your feeds swept over you.
Here’s what the Feedly message means:
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